Test 2 · Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones
Dev: «only an ache, I'm batting next» after landing on his hand. What's best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dev · What happens: bat, land, be · To what, where: hand
This is test 2 of lesson 48 «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Dev: «only an ache, I'm batting next» after landing on his hand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dev | Dev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 batting | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 ache | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ache | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 ache | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ache | det |
| 6 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dev | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dev | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 batting | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 batting | aux |
| 10 | batting | bat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 batting | advmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 batting | punct |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 landing | mark |
| 14 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 batting | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 landing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 batting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bat in a quote | present · progressive | Dev | next property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | land | gerund | Dev not said here | Dev's hand | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on hand=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What's best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 best | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 best | cop |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell an adult; a wrist break can feel like an ache
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 break | det |
| 6 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 break | compound |
| 7 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 ache | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ache | det |
| 12 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | can | a wrist break | like a ache | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like ache=Theme |
Option 2
Ignore it until next season
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ignore | obj |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 5 season | case |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 season | amod |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignore | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | imperative | you not said here | it | season | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Ice it for a minute then bat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minute | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 minute | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 minute | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minute | det |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 bat | advmod |
| 7 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 minute | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bat with the other hand and see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bat | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hand | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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